How Did Napoleon Harmed In Animal Farm

Napoleon declared that “...any animal giving so much as a grain of corn to a hen should be punished by death.” This is stated in document B. Before this part in document B the hens were ordered to sell all their eggs. The hens decided to object Napoleon’s wishes. As a result of the Napoleon punished them by not giving then any food and if any other animal was seen giving the hens food they would be punished with death.

Towards the beginning of the book, the animals make a list of rules which they call the Seven Commandments. Throughout the story, Napoleon adds on to the commandments, such as changing the last rule from “All animals are equal” to saying, “All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.” The animals accept the changes and just think that they remembered the commandments wrong..blaming it all on their ‘faulty memory’. This happens again and again, and Napoleon continues to take advantage of his power. He realizes that he is much more smart and clever than any of the other animals on the farm, and changes things to be in his favor. He cuts down on the serving sizes of each animal’s food portions and makes them work even more than they worked with their previous human leader. The animals so obliviously followed Napoleon even though what he was doing was incorrect, but because they had trust and respect for him, they never thought that he was in the

The story of Animal Farm is not just one of a talking pig who takes over a farm. Rather, the tale seeks to show the fear factor in which the citizens under Joseph Stalin’s totalitarian government lived with. George Orwell, in Animal Farm uncovers the truth about how the people under Stalin’s rule were constantly threatened to be killed if they did not dedicate their lives to helping Stalin with his plans. As Napoleon, an allegory for Stalin, takes control of the farm, animals lose their lives, are manipulated to fight the humans and are living in constant fear of getting killed.

He would work the animals very hard and only give them enough rations to survive and keep working. Later in the book when Napoleon was in charge he was very selfish towards the animals in the same way. “The lower animals on Animal Farm did more work and received less food ” (Orwell 136). This shows that just like in the beginning of the story, all the animals except the pigs still had to work very hard and receive little food. The pigs got to live in luxury at the farm house while all the other animals had harsh living conditions in their stalls.

He gave them the false inspiration and hope that they were working for to stay free. This is what Hitler did to the Jews who were able to work, he had in his concentration camps say “work to be free”, but in reality he did not have the intention to set them free. The reason as to why the animals did not rebel was for two reasons. One being that they just were not educated at all and the other reason is because Napoleon has an immense amount of fierce dogs around him at all times. This made him an intimidating pig. The animals were oblivious to the corruption around them that he shrugged off a fellow animal dying by another simply because Napoleon said it was fine and the Commandments said that it was exceptional. The dumbest of the animals was a horse named boxer. Because he was the strongest of the farm animals, what he said greatly influenced the others animals, and because he was on the side of Napoleon the other animals followed. There were many times were the animals would have revolted without Boxer present, but after he died, it was too late to turn back. He inspired the animals by constantly saying, “I will work harder”, and, “Napoleon is always right”. This often concluded questions regarding Napoleon’s style of handling business.

Napoleon being another intelligent pig on the farm believed he could become the leader and have all the power on the farm by scaring the animals. He does so by telling the animals they will work more or there will be punishment “Throughout the spring they worked a sixty-hour week, and in August Napoleon announced that there would be work on Sunday afternoons as well. This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half” (Orwell 40). “The animals believe what the leadership tells them—that they are working for their own good now, not for Mr. Jones’s—they are eager to take on the extra labor”

Napoleon used many different ways to control the animals to make them do what Napoleon wanted them to do. The first way that Napoleon got the animals to do what he wanted was he had his dogs that he raised from youth attack Snowball off the farm. This shows that after that all the animals did not want to mess with him cause they were scared of what would happen. The second way that Napoleon got the animals in his side was when he pulled out the whip at the end of the book. How this shows that he controlled the animals is that when he pulled out the whip the sheep started saying “4 legs are good, 2 legs are better” which shows that he is training them to be like humans.

The first few changes went against the commandments, such as he canceled Sundays morning meetings, he and the other pigs decided that they were going to move into Mr.Jones home and he also started engaging in trade with neighboring farms, an example of this, “Napoleon announced that there would be work on Saturday afternoons as well. This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half” ( 92). Napoleon started slowly changing things for the worse. Some of the commandments he started breaking was things such as pigs sleeping in beds, drinking beer, and using money and he even made the song beast of England illegal. The pigs started lying to the animals and giving themselves special privileges, even though equality between the animals was incredibly important and was the causes of the

“November came, with raging southwest winds(68).” This shows that Napoleon is deceptive and blames snowball to ensure his reign over the animals, even though he knew it was the raging winds. This also shows that even though Napoleon knew it was the raging winds he still wanted to ensure his control over the farm. Furthermore, The pigs justify their consumption of milk and apples because they explain how it helps their health. “Milk and apples (this has been proved by science, comrades) contain substance absolutely necessary to the well being of a pig(12).”

The first year of the Animal Farm the animals had a more successful harvest than what they had with Jones, “It was the biggest harvest the farm had seen.” But now with Napoleon in charge they are having food shortages because of the unsuccessful harvests, which meant “all rations were reduced, except those of the pigs and dogs.” Filling their stomachs where the dogs and pigs when the other animals barely ate. After a while the people found out that the farm didn't have a lot of food. So “Napoleon ordered the almost empty bins in the store-shed to be filled nearly to the brim with sand, which was then covered up with what remained of the grain and meal.”

Napoleon, the leader of the farm, demonstrates society’s many inequalities. Napoleon controls his fellow animals, separating himself and the pigs from

The animals worked day and night to make Animal Farm the best it could be. The animals would not work on Sundays. Sunday was the only day that they slept in, and have a Sunday meeting. At Sunday meetings, the work for the coming week was planned out and resolutions were put forward and debated. Napoleon and Snowball were the only animals to bring forward new resolutions. The other animals only voted, since they could not think of any resolutions of their own. In a short period of time, Napoleon and Snowball were becoming rivals. The competition between the two pigs, led to Snowball being chased off the farm by Napoleon’s dogs, and Napoleon becoming the leader. Napoleon began giving out orders and demands out to the other animals. The animals were becoming slaves, but did not realize it because of their low intelligence and stupidity. They did not have the full ability to understand what exactly what was happening on the farm. The pigs were getting everything. Milk, food, hot and cold water, and much more. A few animals did question at one point about what had happened to all the milk and apples. Squealer, who was Napoleon’s partner, was able to explain why this was so. “Milk and apples contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brain-workers. The whole management and organization of this farm depend on us. It is for your sake that we drink that milk, and eat those apples. Do you know what would happen if

To begin with, Napoleon is causing famine by giving the animals a small amount of food everyday. The animals would be getting enough food in the farm. In the book Orwell says “In january food fell short...starvation seemed to stare them in the face”(67). This demonstrates that the food was shortening throughout the time. Later throughout the story Napoleon makes an order called the Spontaneous Demonstration which is supposed to make the animals forget that are starving most of the time on the farm.

“Outline the ways in which Napoleon obtained and maintained power on Animal Farm. What message is Orwell conveying to the reader through these processes?';

Secondly, the animals fear the outside world. During chapter 3, Squealer, Napoleon's "speaker", tells the animals that the reason that only the pigs eat the apples and drink the milk is that it is required for a